English edit

Etymology 1 edit

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Contraction edit

atta

  1. that's the; that's a
Usage notes edit

Used principally in expressions like atta boy and atta girl.

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Etymology 2 edit

From Hindi आटा (āṭā, flour, farina, dough).

Noun edit

atta (countable and uncountable, plural attas)

  1. (India) A type of wholegrain flour from the Indian subcontinent.
    • 2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, Penguin, published 2015, page 7:
      Kabutri, in the meanwhile, had kneaded some atta and rolled out a few real rotis.
    • 2020, Shruti Swamy, A House Is a Body: Stories, Algonquin Books:
      The little bits of atta on her hands turned the water a milky white and that was all she could offer to her children’s hunger.

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Akkadian edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Semitic *ʔanta m (thou). Cognate with Arabic أَنْتَ (ʔanta) and Biblical Hebrew אַתָּה (ʔattɔ́).

Pronunciation edit

Pronoun edit

atta

  1. you, thou (second-person masculine singular personal pronoun, nominative case)
    𒀀𒈾𒆪 𒅇 𒀜𒋫 [anāku u atta]a-na-ku u₃ at-tayou and I (literally, “I and you”)
Cuneiform spellings
Phonetic

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Akkadian personal pronouns¹
Independent forms Pronominal Suffixes
Nominative Oblique² Dative Predicative³ Possessive⁴ Accusative⁵ Dative⁵
Singular 1st anāku yâti yâšim, ayyâšim -āku , -ya -anni, -nni, -ninni -am, -m, -nim
2nd m atta kâta kâšim, kâšum -āta -ka -ka -kum
f atti kâti kâšim -āti -ki -ki -kim
3rd m šū šuāti, šuātu, šâti šuāšim, šâšim - -šu -šu -šum
f šī šuāti, šâti šuāšim, šâšim -at -ša -ši -šim
Plural 1st nīnu niāti niāšim -ānu -ni -niāti -niāšim
2nd m attunu kunūti kunūšim -ātina -kunu -kunūti -kunūšim
f attina kināti kināšim -ātunu -kina -kināti -kināšim
3rd m šunu šunūti šunūšim -šunu -šunūti -šunūšim
f šina šināti šināšim -šina -šināti -šināšim
1. This table gives Old Babylonian inflection.
2. Used to express the Accusative and Genitive case.
3. Used exclusively on adjectives to form the predicative construction.
4. Used on nouns and prepositions.
5. Used on verbs. Always follows the Ventive.
6. Still unattested form.

Chickasaw edit

Etymology edit

Cognate with Choctaw atta.

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

atta (singular subject)

  1. (active voice, intransitive) to be born
  2. (active voice, transitive, nominal object) to live in
    Oklahommaꞌ ishattatok.You have lived in Oklahoma.

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Choctaw edit

Verb edit

atta

  1. to live

Crimean Tatar edit

Noun edit

atta

  1. locative singular of at

Gothic edit

Romanization edit

atta

  1. Romanization of 𐌰𐍄𐍄𐌰

Italian edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈat.ta/
  • Rhymes: -atta
  • Hyphenation: àt‧ta

Adjective edit

atta

  1. feminine singular of atto

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Latin edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Indo-European *átta (father). Cognates include Hittite 𒀜𒋫𒀸 (attas), Gothic 𐌰𐍄𐍄𐌰 (atta), Old Church Slavonic отьць (otĭcĭ) and Ancient Greek ἄττα (átta).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

atta m (genitive attae); first declension

  1. father (term of respect for an old man)

Declension edit

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative atta attae
Genitive attae attārum
Dative attae attīs
Accusative attam attās
Ablative attā attīs
Vocative atta attae

Descendants edit

  • Sicilian: tatà
  • Neapolitan: (archaic) tatà, (Apulia) attène
    Tarantino: [Term?] (/⁠attánə⁠/, dad)

References edit

  • atta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • atta in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • atta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • atta”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Old Frisian edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Proto-West Germanic *attō (father).

Noun edit

atta m[1]

  1. father

Descendants edit

References edit

  1. ^ von Richthofen, Karl (1840), “atha, atta, ettha”, in Altfriesisches Wörterbuch [Old Frisian Dictionary] (in German), Dieterich Göttingen, page 613

Old Swedish edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Old Norse átta, from Proto-Germanic *ahtōu, from Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw.

Numeral edit

ātta

  1. eight

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Pali edit

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Noun edit

atta

  1. vocative singular of attan

Sicilian edit

Noun edit

atta f

  1. Alternative form of gatta

Turkish edit

Noun edit

atta

  1. singular locative of at

Yagara edit

Pronoun edit

atta

  1. I

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